Meegan M. Reid's Favorite Photos of 2012

A recap of a few of photographer Meegan M. Reid's favorite photos of 2012.

The view through a rain soaked windshield causes a painterly effect as a pedestrian with an umbrella walks along Pacific Avenue in Bremerton, Wash. on Monday, November 19, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Ty Breuer, Mandan, ND., holds on tight as he rides a horse named Arabella during the bareback portion of the Kitsap Stampede on August 24, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Larry Waggoner, of Belfair, is reflected in the mirror of a 1959 Thunderbird as he and fellow Saints Car Club members chat in the parking lot of Kitsap Bank in Port Orchard on August 10, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

With his hands full of luggage, USS John C. Stennis sailor William Jones carries a rose for his daughter Makenna, 4, in his teeth as he searches for his family on the pier of Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton on March 2, 2012 (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Linda Simpson takes part in a yoga class at Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton on Tuesday, Feb. 7. Simpson lost a leg in a motorcycle crash in September of 2011 and was getting ready to take part in the Wounded Warrior Games. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

A youngster wanders through the fields at the Roozengaarde tulip farm in Mount Venron, Washington during the annual Skagit Valley Tulip Festival on Sunday, April 15, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Department of Fish and Wildlife Officer Dustin Prater carries a bear decoy and a frozen bear paw down the trail after a training exercise with his Karelian bear dog named Spencer at the Banner Forest in Port Orchard on Thursday, March 22, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN)

Four-year-old Makena Haley tries to follow along with the Bainbridge High School cheerleaders as they warm up before the start of the boys basketball game against Chief Sealth at Bainbridge High School on Friday, December 7, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

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Leaves are reflected on the surface of Olalla Lagoon as a hooded merganser paddles through the water on Thursday, November 1, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Greenville's Cameron Andrews slides into home base ahead of the catch by Bryant's Garrett Misenheimer during their championship game at Gene Lobe field on August 22, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

A youngster doesn't seem phased as wrestler Patrick Large, left, writhes in pain after being tossed out of the ring during the Lucha Libre wrestling in the parking lot of La Poblanita for the Cinco de Mayo Street Fair in Bremerton on Saturday May 05, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN)

With a cat shaped umbrella to guard them from the rain/ snow mix, Jewel Hartley and daughter Leilah, 3, stroll along Sixth Street in Bremerton on Thursday, January 19, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Pheasant Fields Farm Hand Sheli Story harvests sunflowers at the Silverdale farm on a sunny September 25, 2012. The cut flowers will be sold at local farmer's markets this week. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Angelo Cruz and his son Tre, 3, off of one of the docks at Kitsap Lake Park in Bremerton on Tuesday, July 31, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

A male osprey returns to a waiting fledgling with a fish in his talons at their nest on top of one of the lights at Gene Lobe Field at the Kitsap County Fairgrounds on Thursday, July 12, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Sailor Jonathan Jewell, is greeted with a kiss by boyfriend Sean Sutton after the USS John C. Stennis returned to Naval Base Kitsap Bremerton on Friday, March 2, 2012. With the repeal of Don't Ask Don't Tell, the couple was finally allowed to embrace publicly on the pier. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Greysen Phillips, 8, helps carry a giant flag down the street during the Kingston Fourth of July Parade on Wednesday, July 4, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Adam Kirstein wears a fake mustache for his class photo before the start of the Kingston Class of 2012 graduation ceremony in Poulsbo on Saturday, June 16, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

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Dave Hodges tries to keep his wife Pat dry by holding an umbrella over her as she plants parsley in their community garden plot at Blueberry Park in Bremerton on Monday, May 21, 2012. This will be the first year the Hodges have had a garden in the park. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Klahowya's McKenzie Cook and Olympic's Breanna Quichocho keep their eye on the ball during the first half of their game at Silverdale Stadium on Tuesday, October 2, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

With guns drawn, law enforcement officers wait near the JR Espresso stand during a stand-off at KeyBank in Silverdale, Wash. on Thursday, March 15, 2012. Manda Jo Hoem told tellers that a bomb would explode in six minutes if they didn't hand over $50,000. No bomb went off and the 90-minute standoff peacefully with her arrest. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

A red-breasted sapsucker pecks at a road sign in Gig Harbor on Sunday, April 29, 2012. As part of the woodpecker family, the red-breasted sapsucker drill sholes in trees for sap and the insects that the sap attracts. (MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN)

Jane Olmsted, helps launch a Navy Blue Angels kite flown by her son Skip Olmsted at the Kites Over Kingston event on Saturday, April 14, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID/KITSAP SUN)

A Washington State Honor Guard member walks past the casket of Trooper Tony Radulescu during his funeral Thursday, March 1, 2012 in Kent, Wash. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Savannah Anderson, 13, hugs her little sister Kaylee, 10, after arriving to the gymnasium of Armin Jahr Elementary School to take her home after a shooting at the school in Bremerton, Wash. on Wednesday, February 22, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

With his chainsaw over his shoulder, JR Boehme, of Don Boehme & Son Logging, walks along the top of a newly felled tree at the corner of Jackson and Lund Avenue in Port Orchard on Thursday, November 2, 2012. Trees were being removed to make room for the skatepark and new trails.( MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

Kyle Deven, 13, takes a bite out of his first Fat Smitty Burger: (two patties, three slices of bread, bacon, lettuce, tomato and sauce) before he and fellow boy scouts helped remove the money adorning the walls of Fat Smitty's restaurant in In Discovery Bay on Saturday, January 28, 2012. Deven was able to finish the giant burger as well as some fries. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)

A green lacewing clings to the petal of a poppy in the Raab Park Children's Garden in Poulsbo, Wash. on Friday, July 6, 2012. (MEEGAN M. RIED / KITSAP SUN)

Joe Greer snowboards down one of the bike jumps at Jackson Park as friend Cameron Harris looks on in Port Orchard on January 18, 2012. (MEEGAN M. REID / KITSAP SUN)